The other day I was searching through boxes of old photographs and came across a bundle of colour negatives which turned out to be photographs that I had taken of the Royal Alexandra back in 1988. It would have been great to have had them when I wrote the blog post on theformer Royal ...
In earlier ages we witnessed a government which laid stress on royalty and class privilege, the spirit of which was clarioned by Shakespeare in the lines: Not all the water in the rough rude sea Can wash the balm from an anointed king. In the Victorian or modern age the divine right of...
illiteracy decreased to only five percent in comparison to thirty percent illiteracy of men and forty percent illiteracy of women in 1850. In fact, for the first time the government took control over spreading
The promise of underlying order and coherence, of knowability, is held out by fiction, or, as Robert Louis Stevenson put it: “Life is monstrous, infinite, illogical, abrupt and poignant; a work of art, in comparison, is neat, finite, self-contained, rational …”引自The Victorian novel ...
The railway companies were to have the choice presenting their claims either under the head of payment for the cession of perpetual and exclusive way-leaves to the Government; or, under the head of compensation for the loss of right to grant way-leaves to any one other than the Government,...
So that impulse for a better life for all was delayed and frustrated until the second Labour government after WW2. To me Fred was very much an Atlee man. There was a line, possibly in the pilot, something like “I didn’t tramp halfway round Europe to come back and find the country ...